Word: brights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...warm, bright room with the crackling logs at one end and the bottle-beleagured sideboard at the other, with more glasses than crockery on the table, and friends not less than the Graces nor more than the Muses in number. What a picture. Who does not remember such an one? But still more bewitching is the picture of this same room a few hours later when the smoke is curling about overhead; tongues are loosened, faces tinged with a rosy flush, the flowers and fruit strewn about the table, and all "ennuies de convention" are forgotten and wine...
...Three bright-robed queens serene and bland...
...John Bright has written a preface to the English edition of the "Life of Frederick Douglass...
...pictures now on exhibition in Williams & Everett's gallery, makes one almost imagine himself in a European capital enjoying pictures which in America are characterized as "rare." Boston has seldom been favored with such a fine collection. Foremost among them is probably the finest Sehreyer ever seen here. The bright colors of the Arabian costumes, the superb action of the horses, the concentrated attention, go to make up a picture which gives us an idea of true art. The Diaz school is well represented. Diaz by three dark-toned woodland scenes; the pupils, Leon Richet and Watelin, by some good...
...precursor of much of current college wit may, perhaps, be recognized in a bright dialogue in this book on "The Day Before Commencement," with its scene located in "No. 4 Holworthy." The following good advice is given during the course...